Theft-proof lock-means for securing a motorcycle to the vehicle carrying deck of a motor coach

Claim 1

In combination with a motorcycle mounted on the deck of a family motor-coach, a theft-proof lock-means fabricated from casehardened steel, comprising: a. an upstanding bolt loosely mounted through a hole in the motor-coach deck proximate the rear wheel suspension frame of the motorcycle; b. said bolt having a circular head at its bottom end in contact with the underside of the motor-coach deck, a threaded body, and a diametric bore proximate its upper end of a size and shape to receive the shackle of a padlock therethrough; c. a padlock having its shackle pivotally connected to the body thereof; d. two sleeves slidably mounted on the bolt body, one above the other, below the diametric bore; e. the lower sleeve having a lateral extending, upwardly directed, bracket arm engagable with the lower portion of the rear wheel suspension frame; f. the upper sleeve having a laterally extending, downwardly directed, bracket arm engagable with the upper portion of the rear wheel suspension frame; g. a cylindrical tension-nut threadedly mounted at the upper end of the bolt, above the upper sleeve, having a diameter substantially greater than the width of the shackle of the aforesaid padlock, a vertical diametric slot cut in its upper half, of a width to receive the shackle therein, the tensionnut also having a shallow, diametric, groove in its upper surface aligned with the slot, of a width greater than the slot; h. an elongated safety-spacer adapted to interfit the tensionnut groove, of substantially greater length than the padlock, having parallel up-standing side walls spaced a distance apart to snuggly receive the body of the padlock therebetween, and a bottom wall having aligned and oppositely extending open-ended slots, adapted to receive the shackle of the padlock nested between the side walls, therethrough; i. the sleeve bracket arms being in theft-proof locked engaGement with the motorcycle rear wheel suspension frame when the tension-nut bears against the upper sleeve with its vertical slot aligned with the bolt bore, with the safetyspacer seated in the tension-nut groove, with the body of the padlock fitted between the safety-spacer side walls in its locked condition, with its shackle fitted through the bolt bore and nested within the tension-nut and safety-spacer slots.